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We don't pitch often, but when we do the question of pitching creative work usually crops up. We never do it, even when - as happened when we pitched for ITV - other people we're pitching against do, and we want it, and there is pressure to conform. But it would be utterly wrong to talk about how important it is to discover and validate the customer need and problem space if the very first thing we produce for a client presents completely the opposite approach. Doing creative work at the pitch stage is a dangerous fiction
- Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development middlemanapp.com
Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment. [...] The Ruby language and the Sinatra web framework form the base of the tool.
- nanoc: a Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML » home nanoc.stoneship.org
nanoc is a tool that runs on your local computer and compiles documents written in formats such as Markdown, Textile, Haml… into a static web site consisting of simple HTML files, ready for uploading to any web server.
- BigVideo.js - The jQuery Plugin for Big Background Video dfcb.github.com
- On ems and rems | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA filamentgroup.com
rems and ems serve different purposes and need not be mutually exclusive; both can be very useful in the same CSS layout, depending on what you’re trying to do
- Home | Webarchitects webarchitects.co.uk
We specialise in providing green hosting and green virtual servers provisioned using free/libre/open-source software, our Sheffield datacentre is powered by Good Energy. We have been established as a co-operative since 2011.
- jedi4ever/sahara github.com
a plugin for vagrant that allows you manage a sandbox state
- The client-side templating throwdown: mustache, handlebars, dust.js, and more | LinkedIn Engineering engineering.linkedin.com
- BuiltWith Technology Lookup builtwith.com
- A Style Guide Guide | elyse holladay elyseholladay.com
- LukeW | Touch Target Sizes lukew.com
- w3cjs - w3c validator package by thomasdavis thomasdavis.github.com
A node.js library for testing files or url's against the w3c html validator.
- Ordering CSS3 Properties | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
Reasoning for "real" property last.
- Order of the Day: CSS Properties | Ford Interactive fordinteractive.com
- JavaScript Libraries Growth trends.builtwith.com
Modernizr is the second-fastest growing JavaScript library of the past year, with 473% growth
- JavaScript Libraries Growth trends.builtwith.com
Modernizr is the second-fastest growing JavaScript library of the past year, with 473% growth
- Chrome team to Leopard users: no Chrome 22 for you! arstechnica.com
The Chrome team wrote on Monday that Chrome will soon drop support for OS X 10.5 and that future versions will only be available for Snow Leopard (10.6) or higher on the Mac. The version of Chrome that will do this will be Chrome 2,291 22 (more specifically, version 22.0.1201.0), which has just been seeded into the dev channel for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame users.
- Underscores vs. dashes in URLs - YouTube youtube.com
Freshest info (August 2011) from Matt Cutts.
- Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB) - CloudFlare blog blog.cloudflare.com
- How I learned to stop worrying and love Jenkins - Specialmoves specialmoves.com
- Part2 - browsersec - Browser Security Handbook, part 2 - Browser Security Handbook - Google Project Hosting code.google.com
Solid same-origin policy info and much, much more.
- jrburke/require-jquery github.com
shows how jQuery can be used with RequireJS.
- cdnjs - the missing cdn cdnjs.com
"We host the other stuff." Lose some of the caching advantages from smaller numbers, though?
- Building a Vagrant Box for PS2 Development - m.lafeldt mlafeldt.github.com
Useful for the vagrant tips, not really the PS2 dev bits.
- LukeW | Evolving E-commerce Checkout lukew.com
- niftylettuce/express-cdn github.com
Node.js module for delivering optimized, minified, mangled, gzipped, and CDN-hosted assets in Express using S3 and CloudFront
Nice.
- Vagrants and Chefs and Librarians... oh my! blog.base2.io
- Page Test Tools: Which results should you trust? webperformancetoday.com
- django-medusa: Rendering Django sites as static HTML v3.mike.tig.as
- The Skinny on IE's Update Policy « Paul Irish paulirish.com
"The big change is how IE now interacts with Windows Update: Before you had to opt-in to have "Recommended" updates installed automatically. It's likely few folks did. Now, IE upgrades are shipping as "Important" and this class of updates are defaulted to install automatically. A user can still opt-out and immediately after the announcement of this feature they also published details on how enterprises can opt-out. But still, this is a good move, it helps."
- jQuery Blog » jQuery Core: Version 1.9 and Beyond blog.jquery.com
"jQuery 2.0 (early 2013, not long after 1.9): This version will support the same APIs as jQuery 1.9 does, but removes support for IE 6/7/8 oddities such as borked event model, IE7 “attroperties”, HTML5 shims, etc." This is good but I do not look forward to explanation time with clients.
- X-Icon Editor xiconeditor.com
An HTML5 application (based on <Canvas>) that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine with IE9 and above.
- Flowchart: how to retinafy your website mir.aculo.us
- The Pokayoke Guide to Developing Software pokayokeguide.com
- WebINK Web Fonts webink.com
- jrburke/almond github.com
A minimal AMD API implementation for use after optimized builds
- jQuery Blog » jQuery 1.8 Beta 1: See What’s Coming (and Going!) blog.jquery.com
As of jQuery 1.8, you can build a custom version of jQuery that excludes one or more modules if you do not need their functionality. This capability is made easy by our new build system based on Ben Alman’s awesome grunt tool. To build your own custom version, set up a copy of the jQuery core repo from Github and use the grunt command line options to exclude modules.